Medicare premium for 2009 remains unchanged for most

As healthcare costs increase nationwide, monthly premiums for many elderly and disabled Medicare members will stay at $96 in 2009. While actual costs could increase next year, officials say they would be offset by a reserve, totaling about $9.3 billion, in the Medicare Part B trust fund.

Leading Congressional Democrats immediately recoiled Tuesday from a new proposal to cut $600 billion in Medicare spending over the next decade -- in part by raising the eligibility age. Sens. Joseph I...

With the prohibitive and rising cost of healthcare, there has never been a greater need for accountable care organizations, according to Mark McClellan, MD, former administrator for the Centers for Medicare...

New Speaker of the House John A. Boehner and other Republican lawmakers pressed ahead with plans Thursday to repeal last year's landmark healthcare legislation, rejecting a new Congressional Budget Office...